Demon Eyes Collins

Charlie "Demon Eyes" Collins (25 January 1868-14 October 1904) was an American criminal of the Old West. He was notorious in the New Mexico, Arizona, and Utah regions before he was killed in 1904 by a posse.

Biography
Charlie Collins was born on 25 January 1868 in Abilene, Texas. His father John Collins was a Confederate Army veteran from the American Civil War, and he became a drunkard after the war and abandoned Collins when he was two. Collins lived with his mother Elizabeth Wilson until her death in 1876 when he was only eight years old. Collins became a wild outlaw at a young age, taking part in the robbing of the general store of Sweetwater, which was 25 miles to the west of Abilene, when he was 12. Collins was given scars on his face when he fell from his horse and was nicknamed "Demon Eyes" because of the injuries around his eyes. Collins joined with a gang of riders led by Doc Rose in New Mexico by the time he was twenty, and he was involved in the robbery of the Union Pacific Railroad "Western Bullet" in 1890, stealing $1,500 from the company. Collins killed three guards in the train robbery and four posse members that tried to track him down after making his escape. In 1893, Doc Rose was killed in a shootout in Los Lunas, New Mexico by law enforcement, and Collins became an independent outlaw. He hired some hands if he needed support for his robberies, and his robberies took him as far north as Utah and as far west as Arizona. Collins robbed a bank in Sedona, Arizona in September of 1894 and made off with $2,000. During his travels, he killed a total of 38 people, and he gained a $15,000 bounty on his head. He attracted the attention of several bounty hunters, and he killed several of them.

Death
The invincible "Demon Eyes" Collins was tracked down to Red Mesa in northern Arizona near the Utah border by a posse of lawmen that were seduced by his high bounty price. Collins headed to a creek at Mexican Water just 15 miles to the west to dig up his hidden weapons and money so that he could flee the law, but the posse ambushed him on the return trip to Red Mesa. He was riddled with bullets as he rode down a dirt trail and killed.